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 259 Posts Member #: 9335 Senior Member Bromley, SE London |
25th Jun, 2011 at 11:17:53pm
I'v been reading lots of build threads trying to get ideas and general help for when I have rebuilt my engine and am ready to swap out the old N/A 1275.
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 6549 Posts Member #: 1149 #1 Basshunter Fan Force Racing ICT Dept Manager Miglia Turbo Am frum Yokshyer tha noes! |
25th Jun, 2011 at 11:25:28pm
Wiring always makes an engine look shit, ive ran all mine along the bottom of the engine. 1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.
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275 Posts Member #: 4600 Senior Member Melton Mowbray, near Leicester |
26th Jun, 2011 at 10:33:47am
I'm removing my brake servo & rerouting my fuse box to the dashboard thus running the wires between the dash & the bulkhead.
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 203 Posts Member #: 479 Senior Member |
26th Jun, 2011 at 01:08:57pm
It takes a lot of doing to get them hidden.
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4018 Posts Member #: 1757 Back to Fucking Tool status Swindon |
26th Jun, 2011 at 02:08:18pm
I have seen washer bottles and wiper motors moved inside the cabin, i want to try and have as much wireing as possible hidden out of the way, with a steel front personally its easyer to hide wireing. I would love mine to end up looking like the engine isnt wired up looks proper cool imo Drives
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1425 Posts Member #: 690 Post Whore Norfolk |
26th Jun, 2011 at 05:49:44pm
on my old yukon grey 7 port car I made the loom come down the wheel arches along the inner wing, both sides then into the bay from underneath. This kept thefront very uncluttered.Washer bottle in boot, fuse box behind dash etc, also a power distrubution post behind the dash as well. pre engaged starter helps as there is no extra solenoid etc. - it takes time but is worthwhile. Goldies engine bay is that full of stuff a few extra wires don't make any difference! but on a sparse engine bay its a good look If Carling made Mini engines
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 1755 Posts Member #: 8852 Post Whore leicestershire |
26th Jun, 2011 at 05:58:48pm
sometimes its problibly faster to rip the lot out and start again when trying to hide wires, but it depends on how far you want to go 13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat! |
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4309 Posts Member #: 1321 Post Whore Wiltshire |
26th Jun, 2011 at 08:41:06pm
I've stopped caring how the engine bay looks now! On 7th Oct, 2010 5haneJ said:
yeah I gave it all a good prodding |
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259 Posts Member #: 9335 Senior Member Bromley, SE London |
26th Jun, 2011 at 10:44:56pm
On 26th Jun, 2011 eden7842 said:
sometimes its problibly faster to rip the lot out and start again when trying to hide wires, but it depends on how far you want to go Thats what I was thinking. I'll definitely be taking all available wires and trying to re-route them whilst the engines out. The car is going to be more 'function' than 'form' so im not going to go overboard, but i'll try to get it as tidy as possible. It doesn't help that i'll also be keeping the servo. Re-routing the washer bottle also seems hassle given the time i'll be trying to complete the build in (and the fact it works perfectly well where it is at the moment. May however try fitting it under the drivers side wing with an access funnel cut into the inner wing to see how much is left and for topping up. We'll see how it goes. |
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 928 Posts Member #: 326 Post Whore bradford, west yorks |
27th Jun, 2011 at 12:09:37pm
I can't get pics hosted of mine yet but I have hidden mine in the inner wing then they go into the slam panel to the other side the only wires you can really see is the coil wires but megajolt should be fitted by next year. |
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